Lacquer dispensing bottle



Oct. 30, 1962 H. FINLAY LACQUER DISPENSING BOTTLE Filed April 23, 1957 Fig.1.

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INVENTOR. lFAfiHfiA/LAK 9 rmmvsy Unite rates atent 3,069,942 LA'CQUER DISPENSKNG BQTTLE Leah H. Finlay, 203 Juanita Way, San Francisco, Calif. Filed Apr. 2.3, H57, Ser. No. 654,614 2 Claims. (6i. 13273.5)

My invention relates to lacquer dispensing containers and more particularly to a fingernail lacquer dispensing bottle.

The object of my invention is to serve the requirements of fingernail lacquer (commonly referred to as fingernail polish or nail lacquer), which requirements have gone begging all the days of the market life of nail lacquer, totaling some thirty years, during which time the consumer thereof has been subjected to the inconvenience and aggravation of having to use the lacquer from an ordinary bottle which is ill-suited and unfit for use as a nail lacquer dispensing bottle, as it fails utterly to meet the wants, needs and demands of nail lacquer for a suitable and fit dispensing bottle. The aggravation, nuisance and inconvenience resulting from the use of an ordinary bottle for nail lacquer have inflicted undue hardships and punishment of a sort, and albeit waste, upon the consumers of nail lacquer for some thirty years now, the inconvenience, aggravation and nuisance ranging many troublesome paths, some notable ones being (1) the aggravating mess of long, messy, dn'ppy applicators due to an ordinary bottles requirement of an applicator extending the length, or height, of the bottle;

(2) The aggravating inconvenience of stubbornly stuck closure caps carrying depending applicators, which said caps get stubbornly stuck to the top of the bottle due to the lacquer drips from long, messy applicators during the manicuring operation (often causing the consumer to have to resort to pliers to remove the stuck cap, and often ending in a cracked, ruined cap, because one is advised by the lacquer industry not to heat the lacquer);

(3) The aggravation caused by lack of convenient accessibility to a consistently uniform blend of the total ingredients comprising the lacquer formulation, resulting in certain properties of the original formulation being skimmed away from the lower portion of the bottles contents during the use of the upper portion of the bottles contents, thereby leaving in the bottles lower portion a gooey, gummy, messy, left-over batch of something different from the original formulation; the left-over batch being minus the luster quality of the original formulation; the left-over batch being minus the spreading adhesive quality of the original formulation, therefore, without the original lustrous sheen and spreading and adhesive quality of the original formulation when applied to the fingernails. (About the only solution offered by the lacquer industry in this respect is to add solvent to the left-over batch, but obviously unless the bottle provides convenient accessibility to a consistently uniform blend of the total ingredients after the solvent is added, the same old troublesome annoyances, inconveniences, aggravations and nuisances will only repeat themselves over and over again);

(4) The aggravation of being denied convenient and ready accessibility to a consistently uniform blend of the total ingredients comprising the bottles contents after having followed the bottles label instructions to Stir with a stick enclosed with the lacquer, because upon standing certain properties of the formulation settle in the bottom of the bottle;

(5) The aggravation, inconvenience and waste inflicted upon the consumer of nail lacquer due to the obviously glaring lack of creative ability of the lacquer industry to come to grips with its problem, and due to the obviously glaring lack of creative ability of any person outside the applicant to invent a suitable bottle to serve not only the practical requirements of the lacquer itself, but also to accommodate the practical requirements of the equipment, tools and devices employed in connection with the use of nail lacquer, which equipment includes the conventionally used interiorly threaded closure cap carrying a depending, afiixed lacquer applying brush, and which said closure cap has never known the enjoyment or advantages of having a bottle invention which could accommodate its practical requirements (however, with the applicants invention it now has that bottle).

Inventing for nail lacquer and the conventionally used closure cap as said above involved long and meditated thought for due to nail lacquers complex nature and the circumstantial problem peculiar, attendant and relating thereto, inventions for such relatively simple products as ink (which is a simple, watery fluid, not even requiring sealing when not in use, as opposed to the complex formulation of nail lacquer, ingredients of which settle to the bottom on the one hand, and rise to the surface on the other, requiring sealing when not in use) could not serve adequately for nail lacquer, and being of simple concept and of simple material development for so simple a thing as ink, they could not offer any enlightenment for an adequate nail lacquer bottle, as proved by the absence of an adequate nail lacquer bottle during the some thirty (30 years of nail lacquers life ime cry for an adequate bottle. Hence, fortunately for the lacquer industry and the public at large, The Great Creator blessed the applicant with the needed concept for an adequate nail lacquer dispensing bottle and she, working diligently under the good, graces and guiding hand of That Great Creator, has put her conception into material form, giving meaningful purpose and practical serviceability to integrated reservoirbottle art that mankind may have fuller enjoyment and greater convenience in the use of those products which shall surely come to woo this invention for their use.

The object of my invention, therefore, is to present to the nail lacquer industry and to the public at large a unique, original, new and different mechanical art, hitherto unknown to this World, the structure of which is adequately conceived and constructed to serve the long-felt wants, needs and demands of nail lacquer and the equipment, tools and devices employed in connection with the use thereof. My invention does specifically provide a fingernail lacquer dispensing bottle having a neck portion formed exteriorly with threaded means for detachably engaging and accommodating the natural and practical requirements of an interiorly threaded closure cap carrying a depending lacquer applying brush, said bottle having a hollow papilla formed externally upon a wall thereof and integral therewith, said papilla depending below and vertically aligned with said neck of said bottle, which said papilla forms an interior, segregated reservoir portion apart from the main bodyportion of said bottle, and

which said papilla-reservoir portion is readily accessible through said neck, and which said papilla-reservoir is concentric with said neck portion formed exteriorly with threaded means for detachably engaging and accommodating the natural and practical requirements of an interiorly threaded closure cap carrying a depending lacquer applying brush, and which said papilla-reservoir is concentric with the said neck portion formed exteriorly with threaded means for detachably engaging and sealing relationship to an interiorly threaded closure cap carrying a depending lacquer applying brush, and which said papillareservoir is concentric with the said neck portion formed exteriorly with threaded means for detachably engaging and accommodating the natural and practical requirements of an interiorly threaded closure cap carrying a depending lacquer applying brush, the said papilla-reservoir and the said accommodated closure cap being mutually concentric.

Other objects and advantages will be in part evident to those skilled in the art and in part pointed out hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein there is shown by way of illustration and not of limitation preferred embodiments of the invention.

In the drawing wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views:

FIGURE 1 is a side elevation of a bottle constructed in accordance with the invention and with portions broken away and in section to reveal details of construction,

FIGURE 2 is a view similar to FIGURE 1 showing a modified form of a bottle as illustrated in FIGURE 1,

FIGURE 3 is a further modification of the invention with portions broken away. and in section to reveal the interior construction,

FIGURE 4 shows another modification of the invention with portions broken away and in section to reveal details of construction, and FIGURE 5 is a modification of the invention with portions broken away and in section to reveal the interior details.

While I have, for the sake of clearness and in order to disclose my invention so that the same can be readily understood, described and illustrated a specific form and arrangement, I desire to have it understood that this invention is not limited to the specific form disclosed, but may be embodied in other ways that will suggest themselves to persons skilled in the art. It is believed that this invention is new and all such changes as come within the scope of the appended claims are to be considered as part of this invention.

In the use of fingernail lacquers as now dispensed with a captive brush carried by a screw cap, it is diflicult to pick up the lacquer on the brush in the proper amount without a wiping of the brush over the neck of the bottle to remove an excess of lacquer. This wiping of the brush at the neck of the bottle renders its use messy as the shank of the brush also carries lacquer which often drips therefrom. It is, therefore, a particular object of my invention to provide a fingernail lacquer dispensing bottle with a reservoir or basin in vertical alignment with a screw cap closure of the bottle and where the lacquer is made available for pick up by the brush in proper amounts without the aforesaid necessity for a wiping of the brush to remove excess lacquer when withdrawing it through the neck of the bottle.

A further advantage of the invention resides in the fact that with my improved reservoir, the entire contents of the bottle may be used and taken up by the brush at a substantially constant level and in a uniform condition without a tilting of the bottle when in use in order to immerse the brush into the lacquer. I am aware that others have provided reservoirs in ink dispensing bottles for the purpose of facilitating the filling of fountain pens. In each of these instances, however, the bottle construction involves the provision of an extra lip or partition within the bottle which renders its construction expensive and since the reservoirs so provided are of necessity located at one side of the bottle neck their use as a reservoir for a brush 'as contemplated by my invention' is impractical. A further objectionable feature of these prior bottles is that in order to fill such a reservoir, it is necessary to practically invert the bottle. As a result of this manipulation, it will be readily seen that the lacquer, due to its viscous nature, will not only be picked up at the end of the brush, but throughout its entire length and also within the closure cap itself, there fore the use of a brush with these bottles is impractical if not impossible. 1

In the accompanying drawing, I have illustrated practical embodiments of my invention as applied to a conventional fingernail lacquer dispensing bottle in which a papilla due to its position and arrangement in the bottles construction provides a reservoir or basin from which lacquer may be conveniently taken up by a brush carried by a closure cap without the above referred to difiiculties. At the same time a one piece bottle structure is achieved without interior partitions or the like such as have been referred to above as used for dispensing fountain pen ink. With the papilla positioned d rectly beneath the mouth of the bottle and in vertical alignment with the closure cap, there is provided without the use of partitions an interior reservoir or basin from which a limited quantity of the contents of the bottle may be taken up by a brush without a tilting of a bottle during a fingernail lacquering operation.

In FIGURES 1 and 2 of the drawing, the lacquer dispensing container or bottles, designated by the numerals 19, are round in general configuration and are provided with screw cap accommodating necks 11. In FIGURE 1, the neck 11 is located centrally upon the bottle 19. In FIGURE 2, the neck 11 is located at one side of the center. Above the normal level of the lacquer 12, the walls of the bottles 10 are shown as deformed as at 13 to provide an external papilla 14, which coincidentally results in the formation of a reservoir or basin 15 immediately below and in vertical alignment with the openings at the necks of the bottles 10. When the bottles constructed in this manner are employed for dispensing of fingernail lacquer, they will have a screw cap 16 which carries a lacquer applying brush 17 for taking up lacquer from the reservoir 15.

In FIGURE 3, of the drawing the bottle, designated by the numeral 18, is shown as having its bottom deformed as at 19 to provide two compartments 20 and 21 into which the lacquer 12 is normally carried. At the upper or neck end of the deformed bottom of the bottle, there is a reservoir or basin 22 into which a se regated quantity of the lacquer 12 contained in the compartments 20 and/or 21 may be deposited by a slight tilting of the bottle and in this manner a quantity of the lacquer from either of the compartments 2%} and 21 may be segregated and used up as desired independently of the main body of the lacquer in said bottles. At its upper end and immediately above the reservoir 22, the bottle 18 has a screw cap accommodating neck 23 upon which a screw cap 24 is threaded and depending from the screw cap 24 there is a lacquer applying brush 25 by which said segregated quantity of the lacquer 12 may be taken up from the reservoir 22 for application to a fingernail.

FIGURE 4 shows another design for a bottle, here designated by the numeral 26, in which the body portion of the bottle is of rectangular outline with an upwardly extending screw cap accommodating neck 27 located centrally thereupon. The neck 27 of the bottle is shown as carrying a screw cap closure 28, which as in the previously described structures carries a depending lacquer applying brush 29. Extending transversely between the side walls of the bottle 26, there is a channel or trough forming web 30, which provides a reservoir or basin 31 from which segregated quantities of lacquer may be taken up by the brush 29 when in use.

A feature of all of the above arrangements is that measuring amounts of the lacquer carried by the several containers may he flowed into andsegregated from the main portion of the lacquer for a nail lacquering operation without a complete submergence of the lacquer applying brush as is now the case with the conventional nail lacquer dispensing bottles and as would be the ease with bottles such as have been referred to hereinabove as provided for in the filling of fountain pens.

In FIGURE 5, of the drawing there is shown a further and more extreme modification of my invention in which the main body portion of the container, designated by the numeral 32, is disposed horizontally and as having a papilla forming portion 33 at one end which is located in axial alignment immediately below a screw cap accommodating neck 34 of the container 32. As a closure the bottle 32 is here provided with a screw cap 35 having a depending brush 36 by which the lacquer may be taken from the interior of the papilla 33.

By my invention I provide an efiicient lacquer dispensing bottle with a readily accessible interior reservoir or basin which as distinguished from prior art bottles with reservoirs whose patented principles involve built-in reservoirs, necessitating multiple construction pieces, and multiple operations to attach, join or combine said multiple construction pieces to form a unit that is practical and less expensive to produce and is therefore within the realm of reasonable and general manufacture.

While I have, for the sake of clearness and in order to disclose my invention so that the same can be readily understood, described and illustrated a specific form and arrangement, I desire to have it understood that this invention is not limited to the specific form disclosed, but may be embodied in other ways that will suggest themselves to persons skilled in the art. It is believed that this invention is new and all such changes as come within the scope of the appended claims are to be considered as part of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A fingernail lacquer dispensing bottle having a neck portion formed exteriorly with threaded means for detachably engaging and accommodating the natural and practical requirements of an interiorly threaded closure cap carrying a depending lacquer applying brush, said bottle having a hollow papilla formed externally upon a wall thereof and integral therewith, said papilla depending below and vertically aligned with said neck of said bottle, which said papilla forms an interior, segregated reservoir portion apart from the main body portion of said bottle, and which said papilla-reservoir portion is readily accessible through said neck, and which papillareservoir is concentric with said neck portion formed exteriorly with threaded means for detachably engaging and accommodating the natural and practical requirements of an interiorly threaded closure cap carrying a depending lacquer applying brush, the said papilla-reservoir and the said accommodated closure cap being mutually concentric, and the said papilla reservoir portion being located above the central portion of and apart from the main body portion.

2. A fingernail lacquer dispensing bottle having a neck portion formed exteriorly with threaded means for detachably engaging and accommodating the natural and practical requirements of an interiorly threaded closure cap carrying a depending lacquer applying brush, said bottle having a hollow papilla formed externally upon a wall thereof and integral therewith, said papilla depending below and vertically aligned with said neck of said bottle, which said papilla forms an interior, segregated reservoir portion apart from the main body portion of said bottle, and which said papilla-reservoir portion is readily accessible through said neck, and which papillareservoir is concentric with said neck portion formed exteriorly with threaded means for detachably engaging and accommodating the natural and practical requirements of an interiorly threaded closure cap carrying a depending lacquer applying brush, the said papilla-reservoir and the said accommodated closure cap being mutually concentric, and having the papilla reservoir portion centrally located in the bottle and apart from the main body portion of the bottle.

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